Interreg NWE Open call Interreg NWE – What is it?

• The Interreg North-West Europe (NWE) Programme is a transnational European Territorial Cooperation Programme to promote: • Economic • Environmental • Social and territorial future

• Budget to co-finance projects at a rate of 60% up to approximately €4m

• Project duration of 30-36 months Priorities

• The programme has identified three thematic priorities • Innovation • low carbon • resource and material efficiency.

• The three priorities cover a range of policy areas, including: • transport and mobility • renewable energy • climate change • resource efficiency

## Calls

| Priority | Specific Objective | |---------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Innovation | **SO1**: To enhance innovation performance of enterprises throughout NWE regions | | Low carbon | **SO2**: To facilitate the implementation of low-carbon, energy and climate protection strategies to reduce GHG emissions in NWE\
**SO3**: To facilitate the uptake of low carbon technologies, products, processes and services in sectors with high energy saving potential, to reduce GHG emissions in NWE\
**SO4**: To facilitate the implementation of transnational low-carbon solutions in transport systems to reduce GHG-emissions in NWE. | | Resource/ material efficiency | **SO5**: To optimise (re)use of material and natural resources in NWE | SO3: To facilitate the uptake of low carbon technologies, products, processes and services in sectors with high energy saving potential, to reduce GHG emissions in NWE

- “This specific objective will lead to reduced GHG emissions and pollution and optimise the regions’ energy consumption and production in the NWE areas. The expected result of initiatives undertaken within this specific objective will be the removal of barriers to the adoption of and improvement of conditions for low carbon technology deployment by enterprises.”
- **This might look like**: projects implementing low-carbon technologies by demonstrating new or existing low-carbon products, technologies, or solutions.
  - Delivering and rolling out of emerging energy technologies
  - Implementing transnational living labs to test and demonstrate the use of zero/low-carbon solutions in real life conditions
  - Ensuring that new energy solutions are feasible (for example, finding ways to prevent bioenergy production from negatively affecting agricultural or water resources).
- **Impact**: Projects should focus on the environmental and economic impact associated with the zero/low carbon solution and demonstrate how the project will support further uptake of such solutions.
- **Total budget**: €51m available SO4: To facilitate the implementation of transnational low-carbon solutions in transports systems to reduce GHG-emissions in NWE

• “This specific objective will lead to reduced GHG emissions in transport systems in NWE. The Programme aims to improve the conception and coordination of low carbon transport and mobility solutions by the sector by increasing its institutional capacity.”

• **This might look like:** targeting *transport systems* such as networks of mobility connections, flows of passengers and goods, travel patterns, logistic chains, multimodal systems.

- Pilot or demonstration projects to bring accessible technologies or emerging solutions for low-carbon transportation closer to public use
- Testing and demonstrating low-carbon transport solutions in real life conditions, such as low-carbon or zero-carbon rolling stock, vehicles using alternative fuels, increasing levels of e-mobility, in NWE transport systems or networks
- Engaging with different kinds of transport operators to affect large-scale behavioural change

• **Impact:** Projects are required to demonstrate the transnational added value of their actions and how they will decrease GHG emissions.

• **Total budget:** €48m available Timeline

- Two stage submission
  - Short initial concept note
  - Maximum 10-month period to draw up full project plan Next steps

• Expression of interest form • LEPT will circulate appropriate partner searches • Discuss project ideas with LEPT

• LEPT briefing: http://www.londoncouncils.gov.uk/node/27326 • Interreg NWE: http://www.nweurope.eu/5b/ CIVITAS Activity Fund

http://www.civitas.eu/content/activity-fund CIVITAS Priorities

- **Car-Independent Lifestyles** – cycling, walking, car-sharing, bike-sharing, car-pooling, co-modality, ride-sharing
- **Clean Fuels and Vehicles** – electric mobility, fuelling infrastructures, hybrid vehicles, use of biodiesel, biogas and compressed natural gas, cleaner fleets
- **Collective Passenger Transport** – accessibility, intermodality, service improvements, ticketing systems, innovative PT systems, fleet management, procurement schemes
- **Demand Management Strategies** – congestion charging, access restrictions, parking management and strategies, low emission zones, car-free zones, priority lanes, mobility credits, financial incentives and disincentives
- **Integrated Planning** – land-use, housing, new developments, sustainable urban mobility plans
- **Mobility Management** – marketing and communications, personal and company travel plans, mobility info centres
- **Public Involvement** – multi-stakeholder consultations, information campaigns, participatory processes
- **Safety and Security** – traffic calming, infrastructure design, shared space, cycle highways, secure school paths, anti-vandalism measures
- **Transport Telematics** – intelligent transport systems, communication, routing, smartphone applications, plate recognition system
- **Urban Freight Logistics** – urban delivery centres, distribution schemes, fleet management, cycle logistics, freight partnerships, urban freight transport plans